It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.